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A Life Span Perspective of Suicide

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Suicide is probably best understood as a multidimensional malaise. It would seem most accurate to define suicide as an event with biological (including biochemical), sociocultural, interpersonal, psychological, and personal philosophical/existential aspects. It is also possible, as we believe this volume has shown, to attempt to structure suicidal phenomena from a developmental point of view.

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Leenaars, A.A. (1991). A Life Span Perspective of Suicide. In: Leenaars, A.A. (eds) Life Span Perspectives of Suicide. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0724-0_20

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